What Candy AI Shorts costs in tokens, and which episodes are free

Updated 30 Sep 2026

What Candy AI Shorts lets you watch for free

Two episodes of every series come at no cost, and Simona Rossi: Wrong But Right is more generous still, with three. Of the 687 episodes listed, 241 are free, roughly a third of the catalogue. Each one is the actual episode at full quality, not a trailer, though it cuts off before anything turns explicit. For the rest of the story, you pay tokens to unlock each later episode.

How much each locked episode costs

Episodes come at one of just two prices. A standard series asks 12 tokens for each locked episode, while one featuring a licensed performer wants 30. What really separates series is how many of their episodes are locked.

That first row describes most of the catalogue: 102 series, each costing 36 tokens to see through. The eleven longer runs fall between 48 and 384 tokens, and seven more land at 90.

Getting tokens through Candy’s plans

Tokens come only with a subscription to a paid Candy plan. Whatever its length, a plan adds 100 tokens for every month it covers. The only thing that varies is how often you are billed, which sets the monthly price:

The prices above were noted in September 2026. Candy tweaks its deals every so often, so double-check them at checkout before you sign up.

Turning a series’ token cost into dollars

Divide a plan’s monthly price by its 100 tokens and you know what one token is worth, which makes pricing any series easy:

That is a big gap. A single performer series comes to about $12.60 when billed monthly, yet only about $3.60 with the yearly plan, for the very same tokens; only the billing differs.

Over twelve months, the billing cycle decides

If you mean to stay a while, compare what each plan costs over twelve months. Every option brings the same tokens, yet the totals you pay could hardly differ more.

Monthly billing suits a one-month trial and little else. Stay any longer and the yearly plan pulls ahead, since four monthly payments together cost more than its single charge, which buys a whole year of tokens.

Series that run longer: 6 to 34 episodes apiece

Eleven series run beyond the typical five episodes, and nothing else drains tokens as fast. All keep the normal rate, 12 tokens per locked episode, meaning every added episode pushes the cost higher:

To reach the end of a 15-episode series you need 156 tokens. That eats two months of plan tokens and leaves 44 unused: about $21.84 on monthly billing, or only about $6.24 if you pay yearly. My bestie betrayed me is the outlier at 384 tokens, nearly four months’ worth, so budget about $53.76 on a monthly plan or about $15.36 on a yearly one.

How to stretch 100 tokens

• Two standard series need 72 tokens, and the leftover 28 open two more locked episodes in a third.
• One performer series swallows 90, with 10 to spare.
• Unlocking single episodes, you get eight standard locked ones from 100 tokens, with 4 left.

Tokens rarely go to waste if you unlock nothing before both free episodes have played, then pay for the whole series once you carry on: a half-unlocked series means you paid for a story that stops short of its ending. When spending your first 100, our best-series shortlist makes a good starting point.